A very difficult full moon, December 12, plus or minus four days, will immediately rivet your attention on your family or a home / property situation. I will not kid you - this full moon is a monster, for it will lash out at Saturn, Uranus, Mars, and the Sun. That's a lot of planets to take on at once, and all those planets will be quite literally in four different quarters of the sky at the time. Emotion will be high, and adjusting to unanticipated events will be hard, particularly if you were born near March 11, plus or minus five days.
You will need to do your holiday preparations early so that you have a completely empty calendar at midmonth. There is no way you can handle more than that full moon - you will have to drop everything once news hits. By the time you resume your life, it will be December 17 or 18 or even later, and the pressure to get things done for the holiday will be unbearable. Be smart and get shopping, wrapping, and shipping done by the December 6-7 weekend. If you plan to put up a tree, do it that weekend. If you have family members, especially children, who are depending on you to make a holiday tradition for them, you will absolutely need to be ahead of schedule.
As I watched the boxes file into our house yesterday completely filling our small rooms and towering to the ceiling in some places I then knew what my full moon was all about. It was about my stuff. It was about the fact that my house is so small and I have way too many things to put inside it. My family is being thrown into chaos and the storm is suddenly upon us. Our abundance of stuff, what will we do with it all?
There is a mountain of boxes in every room. Stuff, stuff stuff it's everywhere! The t.v. that I reluctantly agreed to let Seb buy in Mexico is far too large for our living room. It's frightening to see that I now have a bachelor pad style living room--sounds system and computer fill the small space. I had to ask the movers to put the sofa and chair outside and cover them with a tarp while we figure out where to store them. It's an impossible situation. Our bedroom is too small for the armoire we have and we have nowhere to put our clothes. And how can I say anything to Seb about his big ugly tv with my sixteen boxes of kitchen supplies. Sixteen boxes! We are in stuff hell. It looks as if Barbie is trying to fit her things inside a Playmobil house. I feel like putting it all outside with a sign. An impromtu French yard sale, yes!
It's our own fault. We made the mistake many expats told us not to make. Mexican houses are enormous and we felt that enormity and tried in vain to fill our very empty Mexican house with things. And now we have an even bigger problem because we're in Paris where the houses are smaller than the average French house.
We talked last night and Seb said "yes but this house is only 80 square meters (800 square feet). What do you expect?" We have plans to expand it to 160 sq meters (1600 square ft) with some of the work, making the kids larger bedrooms, a small office and of course a bathroom. But for now living in 80 square meters with all this stuff is impossible. We are living in a storage shed.
Seb started laughing at me. "When we first met we lived in 27 square meters. That wasn't all that long ago." "Yes but we didn't have two kids and a cat. And we had no furniture! We were really poor."
We have become spoiled. We're so used to having space that we've accumulated too much. In Mexico for the year we were there our house measured over 250 square meters (2500 square feet) We stretched out and when we went to buy a sofa we bought a set because the one sofa looked so lonely in the enormous room. I can't believe how empty that house looked with all of our things in it and how full this house looks with everything. And I have what I have always loathed. A giant media center dominates my tiny living room.
Full moons always crash in to your life and create chaos. If it's aligned with some difficult planets it can be a real firestorm in your life. But the good news is that the chaos usually brings better things. It's like a forced spring cleaning. When I traveled to France in 1999 under a difficult full moon my sister and I had a huge argument and I bought out her portion of the Europass. We went our separate ways both crying and telling my mother over the phone what a bitch the other was being. But luckily we did separate. I ended up in Annecy sitting in a cafe next to my future husband and if the waitress hadn't spilled an entire pitcher of water on the table we never would have met.
Maybe this chaos will bring good things. Maybe it's time to pare down and clean house. The universe is sending me a message. "You have far too much stuff!"
12 comments:
Funny how astrology works out sometimes! OK, maybe not funny-ha ha in this case, but at least you had warning.
Best of luck with all of the boxes. I know the feeling of having too much stuff. I keep trying to pare down myself and am not having a whole lot of luck with it.
I hate big TVs too; we must have the smallest one of all the people we know. I can’t stand going into someone’s living room and all you see is the HUGE tele, like a throne dominating the room.
When Leon’s friends come round they ask us why it’s so small and why we only have one TV in the whole house. We too live in a small Paris house (95M²) and there is only so much stuff you can fit in !
Maybe you can get rid of the some of the “stuff” on ebay, but 13 boxes of kitchen stuff ! Good grief girl I ‘d love to know exactly what you have ? Do you have a different machine that does everything. . . Crepe partly, raclette, bread machine, waffle machine, blender, mixer, robot . . .
Nope I don't have a lot of gadgets. And that's 16 boxes not 13. Nuts huh? Two of the boxes are cookbooks, two boxes are the Andorra pottery I bought right before leaving, and two are parts to a kitchen dessert cart on wheels. The rest is a mystery. Probably just pots and pans and the usual. I bet they got overzealous with the bubble paper! Hopefully it's mostly that.
So far the Full Moon has been great for me. I have always done well with that light in the sky to guide my way. One very wise sage told me that it was my Irish heritage and the pagan in me that kept me in tune with this spotlight. When I went for a bike ride last night, I kept my eye on the orb and couldn't resist smiling through the burn in my thighs. I put up my Christmas tree and cried for what couldn't be and also for the joy of what is before me.
Some of my witch friends have told me that this moon is the most special for me since it is so close to the rebirth of the earth and the rebirth of my new life. I hope things go well for you and remember all those boxes can wait, not small village will be bombed and no one will die because a box wasn't unpacked. But you already know that. Peace!
The upside is that someone else will benefit from our overabundance! We already have four boxes of stuff to give away and that's only the beginning.
80 square metres!!! Your house looks so much bigger in the pictures. But didn't you write about an attic? Can you store anything up there until you decide what to keep and what to give away?
I don't like having too much stuff either. I can't stand feeling cramped by furniture. We are currently in the biggest house we've ever lived in and people say it feels a little empty, but it's just right for us.
I can't believe you lived in 27 square meters with your husband!!! We lived in 40 square meters when we first moved in together and that was just about right, but I can't imagine sharing a living space any smaller than that with my husband!
P.S. My husband bought one of those big tvs last year too! I have been pining after a piece of furniture to hide it in but they are all far too big for the space we have.
Duuuude! Our house (the one we can't live in yet and god only knows when that day will come) is about the size of the one you moved out of. And the one we're in now is about the size of the one you're in now. So.... we could switch like, right? I'll give you our stuffs and we'll take yours? OK?
yeah, somehow i didn't think you'd go for it.....
Hi, my husband and I live in a rather small house as well, around 1100 sq. ft. I find that because I hate clutter I'm really becoming more and more bringing anything permanent into the house (i.e. groceries etc. are okay).
The kitchen is my weakness as well but now I figure that if I've gotten by this long with only 3 mismatched pots and pans, we'll last longer with the same.
We have only a livingroom/diningroom open combo so our tv is an old 4x3 13". Our friends laugh especially since we both work in television! but it suits us.
Jennifer - the house looks big in pictures. Actually when it's finished to 160 m or 1600 sq ft it will be considered big for a French house. ANd as for the tv it is impossible to hide it's HUGE! It's like 42 inches or something.
Doc - I would say okay but I'm NEVER moving furniture again. When are you getting in that house anyway? Amazing to have that much space in a French house!
Oh I really really feel for you, I felt in exactly the same situation when we moved a couple of months ago - and we were living in a 50 sq m house then. Everything looks so much more when it is boxed up, the house looks so empty!!! You ever wondered how you could live like that!
Well, you'll be able to spread out again soon, don't worry, as soon as the boxes are unpacked, things sort themselves out again, you'll be able to breath. We lived for a month with everything in boxes and it really was very uncomfortable - we are so used to just having a bag with us and not much more than that, but it is not possible to do that when you have kids.
Just as well you and your sister split up isn't it???
Hey, I live pretty near to Annecy, is that where your husband is from originally, or was he backpacking too?
Wow! You really got hit! This weekend I was also hyper aware of my surroundings, for some reason I thought I was going to get injured while skiing but it didn't happen. We had a mishap while applying a new finish to the livingroom floor - L got a shard of wood the size of a toothpick THROUGH his finger! (we got it out but it was scary!) Good luck with all the boxes and just take it one day at a time. You can do it!
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